Bengaluru, July 30: Dozens of members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the students’ wing of BJP today attempted to barge into Home Minister Araga Jnanendra’s official residence demanding his resignation.
Around 40 ABVP members were taken into preventive custody by the police on the occasion.
The hardline Hindutva students also shouted slogans against Jnanendra, calling him a “coward home minister” for not banning Muslim dominant organisations like Popular Front of India and Social Democratic Party of India.
Jnanendra, however, attempted played down the issue saying that he understands the sentiment expressed by the ABVP activists on banning SDPI and PFI. “The government is thinking about this,” he said. “Their demand is that such organisations should be banned in the wake of incidents like the DJ Halli-KG Halli riots and the recent Praveen Nettaru murder,” he said.
Jnanendra said he was not at home when the ABVP activists came. “They have expressed their feelings in my absence. I will invite them for talks,” he said.
Following the protest, the additional commissioner of police (West) Sandeep Patil visited the home minister residence and collected details about the incident.
“At around 9.30 am, some ABVP workers suddenly started a protest near the home minister’s residence. Police personnel on the spot stopped them at the gate. Still, they forced the gate open and tried to enter the house. Unavoidably, we had to take some 40 people into preventive custody,” Patil said.
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